I need to make a little spiral for a model I'm making you know those little things on the handle of a furnace
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1Related: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/42131/modelling-a-spiral-around-a-sphere – Paul Gonet May 11 '17 at 17:26
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You can easily do this with a Bezier Curve object.
There is a builtin addon shipped by default with Blender that allows drawing spiral objects. You can activate it under the File > User Preferences > Addons > Add Curve: Extra Objects.
Then on the 3D View add a new curve type object, from Add Curve:Spirals > Archemedian
Adjust paremeters to your liking, more importantly Height, Radius and Number of Turns. You can also use Radius Growth although I fear it is insufficient alone.
After creating your base spiral, you can enter Edit Mode in it, activate Proportional Edit , select a buch of spiral loops as desired and use scaling to change the radius into that smooth shape.
Be sure to use S, then Shift+Z to restrict scaling to the XY plane, so it will only make the loops thinner/fatter, without moving them in Z axis.
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I went into user preferences and added the extra curves but there is no option to add an archemedian curve – Helpmeplznohate May 11 '17 at 17:43
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Shift + A> Add > Curve > Add Curve:Spirals > Archemedian in the 3D view. Make sure you are not in edit mode under another object. – Duarte Farrajota Ramos May 11 '17 at 17:50 -
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1It is under a submenu, check the included screenshot in my answer. – Duarte Farrajota Ramos May 11 '17 at 18:00
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I can't see any screenshots I'm on a school laptop also i don't see any sub menus under spirals – Helpmeplznohate May 11 '17 at 18:06
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There is an animated GIF in my answer illustrating the process, can't you see it? Check this https://i.stack.imgur.com/lzIgy.gif – Duarte Farrajota Ramos May 11 '17 at 18:19